Caravelas

Caravelas is a city of about 20,000 inhabitants in southern Bahia, Brazil, a few miles above the mouth of the Caravelas River.

Caravelas
City
Flag Coat of arms
Location in Bahia
Caravelas Location of Caravelas in Brazil
Coordinates: 17.732°S 39.266°W
Country	Brazil
State	Bahia
Area
• Total	2,377.889 km^2 (918.108 sq mi)
Elevation	10 m (30 ft)
Population  (2020 [1])
• Total	22,093
• Density	9.3/km^2 (24/sq mi)

Caravelas was founded in 1581 by Portuguese settlers. It was once the centre of a flourishing whale fishery. It is the port of the Bahia & Minas railway. Caravelas is the nearest town to the uninhabited Abrolhos Archipelago.[2] The city contains part of the Cassurubá Extractive Reserve, a 100,768 hectares (249,000 acres) sustainable use conservation unit that protects an area of mangroves, river and sea where shellfish are harvested.[3]

The city is served by Caravelas Airport.

See also

• Abrolhos Marine National Park

References

1. IBGE 2020
2. O Arquipélago dos Abrolhos Archived 2011-09-10 at the Wayback Machine
3. RESEX do Cassurubá (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Ambiental, retrieved 2016-06-22

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Caravellas". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.